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"The more aggressively we use our power to intimidate our foes, the more foes we create and the more we validate terrorism as the only effective weapon of the powerless against the powerful." - John Brady Kiesling

Bush Administration Resignation - Non Iraq Related
British Member of Parliament Robin Cook Resigns
Read Mr. Cook’s Brilliant Speech - A must read!
AU Senior Intelligence Officer Resigns: US Weak Case for War
More on the AU Officer
An Interview with the AU Officer
Senior American Diplomat Ann Wright Resigns in Protest
More on Ms. Wright
Diplomat John H Brown Resigns in Protest
Career Diplomat John Brady Kiesling Resigns in Protest - Read His Resignation Letter to Colin Powell - “Still, we have not seen such systematic distortion of intelligence, such manipulation of American opinion, since the War in Vietnam
More on Mr. Kiesling
Keisling Turns Peace Envoy
Bush a 'very weak' man - A former US diplomat who resigned over the Iraq war on Sunday described US President George W Bush as a "very weak" man led by the hand into battle by Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. - Brady Kiesling, who was political counsellor at the US embassy in Athens at the time of his resignation in February, said in an open letter published by Greek daily To Vima that Rumsfeld exploited the war to increase his own power.
Bush’s Top Cultural Advisor + 2 Resign over Iraq
Article by John Brady Kiesling - Explains his resignation.
Clare Short quits with attack on Blair
Short resignation letter in full
Short calls for Blair to step asid
U.S. Diplomats Who Quit to Protest Iraq War Believe Toppling Saddam Hasn't Made America Safer
U.S. Culture Advisers Resign Over Iraq Museum Looting - Advisers: U.S. Military Should Have Protected Antiquities - Martin Sullivan, who chaired the President's Advisory Committee on Cultural Property for eight years, and panel member Gary Vikan said they resigned because the U.S. military had had advance warning of the danger to Iraq's historical treasures.
Finland PM resigns over 'Iraqgate' - She used the information in the documents in election debates with Lipponen, accusing him of changing neutral Finland's foreign policy by giving American leaders the impression that Finland was part of an anti-Iraq war coalition
Broken promise: Why I quit Iraq - America's approach to governing Baghdad has failed to involve Iraqis, says ISAM al-KHAFAJI, who returned home to help rebuild his country - On July 9, with deep sorrow, I respectfully submitted my resignation as a member of the Iraqi Reconstruction and Development Council to U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz.
'I did not want to be a collaborator' - Isam al-Khafaji, a former member of the Iraqi reconstruction council, explains his decision to resign -
White House striking back? - Former ambassador charges mudslinging over statements - Wilson tells NBC News the White House deliberately leaked his wife’s identity as a covert CIA operative, damaging her future career and compromising past missions after he criticized the administration on “Meet the Press” and in the New York Times.
Alastair Campbell to resign - Alastair Campbell is to resign as the government's director of communications and strategy. - The dramatic announcement comes amid the Hutton inquiry into the death of weapons expert Dr David Kelly.
Head of CIA Weapons Analysis Program Leaving - A top CIA expert on weapons of mass destruction, who became embroiled in controversy over whether the White House stretched evidence about Iraq's programs, said he planned to leave the agency in October. - Alan Foley, who heads the Weapons Intelligence, Nonproliferation, and Arms Control Center, told colleagues in a note dated Aug. 29 that he had been "thinking about life after the agency for some time" and decided to leave after 26 years to enter the private sector. - He alluded to this summer's finger-pointing between the Central Intelligence Agency and the White House over who was responsible for an unsubstantiated claim in President Bush's State of the Union address in January that Iraq had sought uranium from Africa
British officer who gave famous eve-of-battle speech to quit army, newspaper says - The Mail on Sunday said Col. Tim Collins, 43, had handed in his resignation last week and was expected to leave the army this summer after 22 years of service - Collins was investigated for war crimes after a U.S. Army reservist accused him of mistreating Iraqi prisoners, but was cleared of any wrongdoing.
U.S. Journalist Quits Pentagon Iraqi Media Project Calling it U.S. Propaganda - But we immediately started clashing with coalition provisional authorities, who wanted control -- they just couldn't resist controlling the message. Unfortunately, they turned what should have been an independent voice for Iraqis -- this was our aim, to sort of make a PBS, a public broadcast radio and TV for the Iraqis. But instead, it just became a mouthpiece for the coalition, and the Iraqis didn't find it credible.
South Korea's Foreign Minister Resigns - South Korea's foreign minister resigned Thursday, the presidential office said, amid a dispute over criticism of administration policy. - By some accounts, they criticized Roh's plans to dispatch South Korean troops to the Iraq and his negotiations to relocate U.S. troops currently based in Seoul.
US weapons hunter won't return to Iraq: report - David Kay, the chief United States weapons hunter in Iraq, has told the CIA he will not return to his post, a US government source said today. - "He has told the DCI (Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet) that he doesn't want to go back, they have been trying to get him to stay," the source told Reuters on condition of anonymity.
TVNL To start video project - Details here
Danish defence minister resigns - Denmark's defence minister has resigned amid criticism of government reports about alleged weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. - It recently declassified intelligence reports compiled before the Iraq war which show officials thought Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. - The extracts appear to contradict claims leaked to a newspaper that there was no evidence to back up the theory.